This document discusses IFS CRM software and its benefits for customer relationship management. It describes IFS CRM's capabilities for managing the customer lifecycle and its integration with other IFS applications. The presentation then highlights new features in IFS Applications 8 like the Sales Companion app and configuration tools. It concludes with a customer story about Damen Shipyards Group which implemented IFS CRM to improve sales effectiveness and create a single customer database across its global operations.
20. INTRODUCTION
DAMEN SHIPYARDS
GLOBAL PRESENCE
1927
1990
THE COMPANY FOUNDATION
FIRST YARD ABROAD
ACQUIRED
1973
1922
1922
1922
EXPANSION OF DAMEN
SHIPYARDS IN GORINCHEM
1922
1922
1922
1969
1978
KOMMER DAMEN TOOK OVER
START BUILDING ABROAD
1922
21. INTRODUCTION
DAMEN SHIPYARDS
GLOBAL PRESENCE
2011 LET ‘S THE COMPETITION
OUTPERFORM IN A PRODUCTIVE
AND EFFICIENT WAY
2000
NAVAL SCHELDE JOINS DAMEN
1922
1922
1922
1922
1992
AMELS WAS ACQUIRED
2005–2010
EXPANSION
24. SALES PROGRAM: FROM GOOD TO GOLD
1) Sales effectiveness 2012–2013
• Increased selling efficiency
• Sufficient internal communications
• Better reporting & forecasting
2) Sales Excellence 2013–2014
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More leads & opportunities
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Better Customer Insights
Better Market Insights
Lead Management
3) Commercial Excellence 2014–2015
• Increased customer efficiency & profitability
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Collaborative & Social media
25. FROM GOOD to GOLD PHASE 1: SALES EFFECTIVENESS
• One Damen CRM
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One customer database
Facilitate our growth
Better marketing of our products or services
Better Reporting and forecasting
• Key-success factor: “We like to work in the CRM”
• Start: June 2012
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CRM (IFS)
150 users (start with central sales)
26. FROM GOOD to GOLD: CRM
October 2013
375 Sales and Marketing users
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Sales: 135 ; Service: 30 ; D&P: 30 ; Finance/Admin: 10 ; Procurement: 55 ; Holding 15
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Repair: 80 ; Other Damen companies: 20
28. FROM GOOD to GOLD: INTEGRATION CRM
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Customized integration between Opportunity and Sales Contracts
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Customized integration between Sales Contracts and Projects
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Additional security on the Sales Contract depending on the CRM security
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Separate solution in Opportunity for Ship Repair with import of IHS database
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CRM App for iPad
33. CRM: RESULTS & LESSONS LEARNED
• Results
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We have more or less acceptance of CRM
We have one Damen Customer Database
We have much better reporting and forecasting
We have our first analysis of Customer Data
• Lessons learned
• Be aware of the complexity
• Customized integration and new mobility technology
• Advise: start with the CRM and IFS integration
• Train the sales managers (also for the CRM app)